The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education : Psychoanalytic, Attachment, and Developmental Perspectives Paperback / softback
Edited by Marilyn (Austen Riggs Center and Faculty at Harvard Medical School, Boston Graduate School Charles, Jill Bellinson
Paperback / softback
Description
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves communicative, developmental, and relational functions, highlighting the importance and development of the capacity to play in terms useful to early childhood educators.
The book explicitly links trauma, development, and interventions in the early childhood classroom specifically for teachers of young children, offering accessible information that can help teachers better understand the meanings of children’s expressive acts.
Contributors from education, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology explore techniques of play, how cultural influences affect how children play, the effect of trauma on play, factors that interfere with the ability to play, and how to apply these ideas in the classroom.
They also discuss the relevance of ideas about playfulness for teachers and other professionals.
The Imprtance of Play in Early Childhood Education will be of great interest to teachers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists as well as play therapists and developmental psychologists.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/06/2019
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- ISBN:9781138749931
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/06/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138749931
